Bob Dylan Quotes
40 quotations by Bob Dylan
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. |
What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it. |
To live outside the law, you must be honest. |
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. |
The radio makes hideous sounds. |
Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them. |
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas. |
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. |
No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky. |
Money doesn't talk, it swears. |
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything. |
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall. |
In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge. |
I've never written a political song. Songs can't save the world. I've gone through all that. |
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation. |
I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon. |
I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours. |
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet. |
I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged. |
I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. |
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be. |
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay. |
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. |
Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people. |
Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid. |
Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges. |
Chaos is a friend of mine. |
But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. |
Being on tour is like being in limbo. It's like going from nowhere to nowhere. |
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot. |
At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage. |
All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die. |
All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie. |
All I can do is be me, whoever that is. |
A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet. |
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. |
A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding. |
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. |
A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it. |
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. |